Former Massachusetts governor who [[ https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/04/deval-patrick-2020-elections-decision-1045361 | declared in December 2018 he wouldn't run ]] but then ended up announcing his candidacy mid-November 2019 and then dropping out mid-February 2020, not even quite two months later, making for perhaps the most pathetic campaign of this cycle.